> cElementTree cannot hold ElementTree instances. > > can you post a small but self-contained example showing how you got this > error?
> </F> #from elementtree.ElementTree import ElementTree, dump # This works from cElementTree import ElementTree, dump # This does not from elementtree import ElementInclude etree = ElementTree(file='xml_in.xml').getroot() dump(etree) ElementInclude.include(etree) dump(etree) for child in etree.find('./included_root').findall('./*'): # Copy the child down to the root etree.append(child) # Remove the root/included_root etree.remove(etree.find('./included_root')) dump(etree) <!--xml_in.xml--> <root xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <child name="first"/> <xi:include href="xml_included.xml"/> </root> <!--xml_included.xml--> <included_root> <child name="second"/> <child name="third"/> </included_root> Thanks for the help. Mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list